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Atakpamé: the feast of Odon Itsu 2017 compromise



In a letter dated 21 July to the Prefect of Ogou, the sons and daughters of Atakpamé express their rejection of the celebration of the great harvest festival Odon Istu, the feast of the yam. A celebration usually celebrated with pomp which brings even closer the nationals of the city of the seven hills.


In the background, insults uttered by certain individuals against the spiritual leader of the Ifes, his majesty IBA. Insults regarded as "sacrilege, a serious insult to the person of Her Majesty IBA". To this is added the decoration of Major Koulom that the population considers a hangman.

To do this, in place of a grandiose feast as it is every year, the people ask the Prefect of the Ogou, Edoh Akpako, a reparation and a rehabilitation of the spiritual leader in his functions of dignitary.

"The Prefect, This declaration of June 22, 2017 reducing Our Majesty IBA to a simple spiritual leader of a small convent that represents only his court show that the authors do not know the importance and value of our feast and have profaned the spirits of The "Omidoudou" water, land and hills "the 7 hills of Atakpamé", air, fire, our ancestors and all the fetishes of Ogou prefecture. Repairs, "reads the letter.

Reparations without which, "Monsieur le Préfet, it is not possible to celebrate our traditional Odon-Itsu festival in its usual form which is crowned by an apotheosis at the municipal field of Atakpamé," hammered the traditional and spiritual leaders of Atakapmé .

Will the wish of the traditional leaders be respected? The celebration of " Odo Itsu is celebrated in August, so in a few days. If not, what will happen to this city where there are tensions?

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